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Donald Metcalf (1929–2014)

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Discoverer of hormones that regulate blood-cell proliferation.

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and head of the Department of Medical Biology at the University of Melbourne. He first worked with Don Metcalf as an undergraduate in the 1980s., Douglas Hilton is director of the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research in Melbourne, Australia,
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